Delhi High Court allows MP Engineer Rashid to attend Parliament
The Delhi High Court has directed the prison authorities to send MP Engineer Rashid to Parliament under police escort, adding that he should be brought back even if it was beyond the official hours of jail entry.
Rashid, an Independent Lok Sabha MP from Baramulla, has been in judicial custody since 2019 in connection with a terror funding case being investigated by the National Investigation Agency. (Express File Photo) The Delhi High Court has allowed Baramulla Lok Sabha MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh alias Engineer Rashid, arrested in a terror funding case, to attend the Budget session in judicial custody between March 26 and April 4, but with the order being made public on March 26 Rashid will likely attend the session from Thursday.
Stating that MP owes to the people of his constituency the duty and responsibility to represent them in Parliament, the March 25 order by a division bench of Justices Chandra Dhari Singh and Anup Bhambhani said, “This court is confident, that subject to the conditions that the court proposes to impose by this order, the State machinery would be able to ensure the integrity of the appellant’s custody, so that he remains available to face trial.”
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